The week is half over and that means the ref’s whistle just sounded and the first annual Android Bowl has officially reached halftime! If you have not been keeping up, we’ve paired with @NVIDIAtegra to give away three Transformer Prime tablets, complete with quad-core processing power and a keyboard dock to boot.

The bad news is that a bunch of you guys seemed to miss the theme- nay, the spirit of the first post. We’re just using the timing of the big football game to try to parallel a battle between Android brands. While some of you got this, most of you guys tweeted and commented about the actual football teams.

Not that we don’t love some football, but the Android Bowl is about Android. We’re looking to find the brands, carriers, and manufacturers that you guys most trust and enjoy. To play along, you visit the Edit account page and select a carrier and manufacturer. When talking trash and sharing the link, root for your Android team!

Halftime stats

To keep the ball moving, we’re going to share a peek at a few of the Android Bowl stats we’ve racked up so far. We’re not only tracking the number of users each team has, we’re keeping tallies of the actual score and rank of each user, allowing us to make some interesting comparisons.

For instance, even though Verizon is in the top carrier slot by number of users, the And Me Accounts belonging to team T-Mobile actually have a higher average rank. In addition to monitoring the top performers, we’re also keeping a close eye on the bottom of the pack. Motorola currently has the lowest average rank among manufacturers with at least 100 users, while some teams like Amazon don’t have even a single member (no Kindle Fire fans?).

We’ll be back at the close of the Android Bowl to share all the stats you guys created, but we thought halftime might be a good time to head to the locker room and rally your team. Bragging rights are at stake. Is your carrier or manufacturer going to come out on top? If you’d like to talk trash, make predictions, or try to convince your friend to join your team, we’ve left a preloaded tweet box below:

Oh yeah, and the free Primes?

We’re picking a winner from a random comment from each day (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) who will receive a Transformer Prime, with dock, direct from @NVIDIAtegra. We already closed comments on Day 1, comments here will be live (if you’ve entered a carrier and manufacturer) until our next post comes on Friday. Break!

Clark is a developer living in Austin, Texas. He runs ClarkLab, a small web firm with his wife, Angie. He's a big fan of usability, standards, and clean design.

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Seems to be a LOT of love for Samsung at the moment so I think I picked the right team! Back on Orange after a little break (though to be honest all the networks seem to have the same list of good and bad points so I’m much more willing to switch -that- team if it gets me a better deal!)

Cant beat sprints pricing! Used to really admire HTC hardware, but they have grown stale in my opinion. Samsung has me impressed now-a-days. If we could only get the solidness/heft of an HTC device in a samsungish package . . .

I’m genuinely surprised at the amount of love Samsung’s getting here. I’ve had a ridiculous amount of Samsung phones and they’ve always had poorly built hardware and support, and lately they’ve been putting their stupid TouchWiz software on everything. I like my Galaxy Tab, but it’s built so stupidly and is often so slow and clunky that I have to wonder if Samsung is doing all of these things on purpose.

HTC, however, has never done me wrong. I’ve had my Nexus One for over two years now, and it still works well and hasn’t broken once. Team HTC all the way.

I left Cellular One to go to T-Mobile many, many years ago and never really looked back. Plus, I have to say that T-Mo has been doing some pretty great things here in Chicago with its network. I’ve noticed far stronger, more consistent signals along my commute over the last few months on the trains.

Go At&t and Pantech! Rocking a Pantech Matrix since 2008! It’s a tank, and can side both ways! (dialer and full QWERTY) Some may call it a brick, but hey, where would we be without bricks? Gotta love old phones :)

I have been a long time T-Mobile customer and I still love them. As for manufacturer, I have to go with HTC. I do love Samsung as well, but every Samsung phone I have had I had to replace only after a year without ever dropping or damaging it.

Lovin T-Mobile! First carrier with Android? Yup! Still rockin the best Android phones? Yup! Winner? T-Mobile!!! Been with them for over 7 years and still lovin them. And as for manufacturer, that’s a big toughie between HTC and Samsung. Overall, I think it’s a close call, but Samsung is barely above HTC.

My first Android phone was an HTC Desire and I loved it. It was a great phone (minus the lack of internal storage space) and I recently had to decommission it due to the screen breaking. Enjoy your rest old friend. I now have a Motorola Electrify, and I very much enjoy it.

no hating! i’m a Washington Redskins fan. hugh football fan overall. But when it comes to Superbowl? it is a must see! no matter if your team didn’t make it to this far. The New York Giants had rocky start of this season but have proven in so many games that they are solid team coming to superbowl. But, I got to give the New England Patriots my favor here, they have proven every single game that even thier defense is not consistent as it should have been, but their high power offense can take them pass New York Giants and WIN the Superbowl. once again!! but back to the topic here: going with team samsung on at&t!!!!! yeah baby!

I’m a huge fan of Motorola, I still miss my milestone sometimes. I’m currently rocking a galaxy nexus, but if moto made a nexus, or at least a phone with an unlocked boot loader and oodles of developer support, I’d be all over it!

I’ve fallen in love with the HTC brand to say the least. They really know how a phone needs to be built in my opinion.
I’m still rocking my Nexus One and it has been one of those devices i consider to be perfection at its best!

As for a carrier. Verizon really does have a great lineup of phones.
They have given their customers what they need. As was with the Galaxy Nexus coming to their customers first.

ok so im using the Galaxy Nexus and LOVE it. However, Motorola is by far my fav manufacturer. Solid hardware every time. Just cant stand locked bootloaders. Thats the killer. If you people arent hoping for that Droid RAZR dev edition to hit the states then somethings wrong with ya ;-)

I’m loyal to Sprint, but with all of their recent price hikes, my loyalty is beginning to wane. I like HTC phones more for the Sense UI than for the phones themselves. I feel like HTC is falling being in hardware design and specs, while Samsung is getting better and better.

Since switching to Sprint last year, I can say it is HEADS AND TAILS better than the ATT service I used to have. The number of dropped calls I’ve had in the past year equal what I had every couple of days with ATT. The 3G speeds have left a little to be desired, but I am excited to see the LTE rollout!

Motorola has the best build quality, verizon used it to lead the way for android on their fantastic network and it has a very string dev community working hard to get ICS on devices that are 2+ years old.

It’s all about Tmobile and Samsung. Tmo has amazing hspa+ in my area and pretty affordable rates. And Everyone knows Samsung has the sexiest phones around. Galaxy Nexus is my device of choice at the moment! Im absolutely craving a Prime!

As much as I ethically am not a fan of the big red machine, they have the best service, best coverage, fastest speeds and really no one else comes close. Go big RED! And Samsung is just putting a hurting on all of the other OEM’s out there… My Galaxy Nexus is far and away the coolest gadget I’ve ever purchased!

I love my Sprint service, even if it is slow on the 3G. I’ve never had a problem with them as a company. For phones, I’m really liking my Motorola Photon 4G. It’s been able to handle just about anything I throw at it.

I don’t really have much a preference when it comes to manufacturer simply because HTC has made my past 3 phones. I guess they’re doing something right (hardware keyboard more than likely) to keep me coming back for more!